Project Based Learning in a
Global Classroom
is about as close as a student can get to the real world - while being in school all day! Keeping a project
atmosphere alive in the classroom means that students stay open-minded about
assignments and discussions, recognizing that everyone in the room knows something about
something, and nobody knows everything about everything - even the teacher! Hmmm
so that means that the knowledge is distributed among all of us! Students' great ideas often reshape our whole lesson plans! Kids use their
thinking
skills and communicate, plan, problem solve, create, and evaluate.

Here are some adventures, projects, and partners
my classes have played with. (See Stuart
Brown on TED for more on play.) (Don't forget Lev
Vygotsky and his observations of kids' intellectual levels rising while
immersed in play).